LEADER 05288nam 2200649 a 450 001 9911006551103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-58278-2 010 $a9786613612564 010 $a0-08-050346-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000088646 035 $a(EBL)872563 035 $a(OCoLC)782878389 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640236 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11377479 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640236 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611826 035 $a(PQKB)10916802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC872563 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000088646 100 $a19820904d1982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQuantum electrodynamics /$fby V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aOxford $cButterworth-Heinemann$d1982 215 $a1 online resource (669 p.) 225 1 $aCourse of theoretical physics ;$vv. 4 300 $aRev. ed. of: Relativistic quantum theory. 1st ed. 1971-1974. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-7506-3371-9 327 $aFront Cover; Quantum Electrodynamics: Course of Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTATION; INTRODUCTION; 1. The uncertainty principle in the relativistic case; CHAPTER I. PHOTONS; 2. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 3. Photons; 4. Gauge invariance; 5. The electromagnetic field in quantum theory; 6. The angular momentum and parity of the photon; 7. Spherical waves of photons; 8. The polarization of the photon; 9. A two-photon system; CHAPTER II. BOSONS 327 $a10. The wave equation for particles with spin zero11. Particles and antiparticles; 12. Strictly neutral particles; 13. The transformations C, P and T; 14. The wave equation for a particle with spin one; 15. The wave equation for particles with higher integral spins; 16. Helicity states of a particle; CHAPTER III. FERMIONS; 17. Four-dimensional spinors; 18. The relation between spinors and 4-vectors; 19. Inversion of spinors; 20. Dirac's equation in the spinor representation; 21. The symmetrical form of Dirac's equation; 22. Algebra of Dirac matrices; 23. Plane waves; 24. Spherical waves 327 $a25. The relation between the spin and the statistics 26. Charge conjugation and time reversal of spinors; 27. Internal symmetry of particles and antiparticles; 28. Bilinear forms; 29. The polarization density matrix; 30. Neutrinos; 31. The wave equation for a particle with spin 3/2; CHAPTER IV. PARTICLES IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD; 32. Dirac's equation for an electron in an external field; 33: Expansion in powers of 1/c; 34. Fine structure of levels of the hydrogen atom; 35. Motion in a centrally symmetric field; 36. Motion in a Coulomb field; 37. Scattering in a centrally symmetric field 327 $a38. Scattering in the ultra-relativistic case 39. The continuous-spectrum wave functions for scattering in a Coulomb field; 40. An electron in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave; 41. Motion of spin in an external field; 42. Neutron scattering in an electric field; CHAPTER V. RADIATION; 43. The electromagnetic interaction operator; 44. Emission and absorption; 45. Dipole radiation; 46. Electric multipole radiation; 47. Magnetic multipole radiation; 48. Angular distribution and polarization of the radiation; 49. Radiation from atoms: the electric type 327 $a50. Radiation from atoms: the magnetic type51. Radiation from atoms: the Zeeman and Stark effects; 52. Radiation from atoms: the hydrogen atom; 53. Radiation from diatomic molecules: electronic spectra; 54. Radiation from diatomic molecules: vibrational and rotational spectra; 55. Radiation from nuclei; 56. The photoelectric effect: non-relativistic case; 57. The photoelectric effect: relativistic case; 58. Photodisintegration of the deuteron; CHAPTER VI. SCATTERING OF RADIATION; 59. The scattering tensor; 60. Scattering by freely oriented systems; 61. Scattering by molecules 327 $a62. Natural width of spectral lines 330 $aSeveral significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calculation of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magneticfield, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes at high energies, inelastic scattering of electrons by hadrons, and the transformation of electron-positron pairs into hadrons. 606 $aQuantum electrodynamics 615 0$aQuantum electrodynamics. 676 $a537.6 700 $aBerestetskii$b V. B$g(Vladimir Borisovich)$044233 701 $aLifshits$b E. M$g(Evgenii Mikhailovich)$0285145 701 $aPitaevskii$b L. P$g(Lev Petrovich)$01822196 701 $aBerestetskii$b V. B$g(Vladimir Borisovich).$044233 701 $aSykes$b J. B$g(John Bradbury)$01822197 701 $aBell$b J. S$028329 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911006551103321 996 $aQuantum electrodynamics$94390231 997 $aUNINA